2014 US limited edition 20-track double LP pressed on TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL, recorded live on 29th October 1994 at the New Daisy Theatre, Memphis TN. Housed in a gatefold picture sleeve - still sealed in stickered shrinkwrap. This is the first pressing of 1000 on red vinyl OVLP-107
We've got the new 180gm Vinyl LP reissues in from Led Zeppelin plus the Deluxe Edition Box.
Find them here at 991.com for immediate despatch or get in touch if there's something else you're missing from your collection. These have the makings of future collectables so buy one to play and one to keep sealed and new...
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Houses of the Holy Deluxe Edition Box
U2 Songs Of Innocence - in stock now at 991.com
2014 UK limited edition 12-track double LP pressed on heavyweight WHITE VINYL, includes an exclusive bonus track The Crystal Ballroom [12" Mix]. Housed in a gatefold picture sleeve - still sealed in title stickered shrinkwrap
Find this and U2 back catalogue, out of print, rare and limited vinyl, CDs and items of memorabilia here at 991.com
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New issue of Record Collector hits the shops today or tomorrow: Pink Floyd on the front... I saw that the Invictus Games put on a huge gig for its closing ceremony on Sunday. The event is for disabled ex-service personnel and is a tribute to their fortitude. Clearly they have suffered a lot and have come through it stronger. So why should they have to endure some bands at the end of it? I've got nothing against Foo Fighters – the band Nirvana could have been, if they'd taken happier drugs – and I'm obliged to be nice about Ryan Adams because I sit next to one of the world's No 1 collectors of his records (a more complex venture than the uninitiated would imagine, with all manner of obscure releases emanating from his bolt hole in North Oh Carolina). But yunno, James Blunt? I know Mr Blunt served, but my dad was in the Navy and I wouldn't want anyone to have had to sit through him singing about the farmer with a sow, a song he used to specialise in, complete with sound effects. A more imaginative choice for the closing ceremony would have been artists associated with the Invictus label: Chairmen Of The Board, The 8th Day perhaps, and the wonderful Scherrie Payne, if you want something with that singer-and-piano-type vibe with a serious lyric that you might not have fully absorbed from The Supremes' version. Now that would have made for a distinctive final party. And anyway, aren't the achievements of these remarkable human beings enough? Do we have to add bands at the end of everything?
Grumble over. As you can probably tell, I am going through a bit of a soul music period at present, with recent purchases that include Marvin Gaye & His Girls; The Marvelettes' In Full Bloom, a couple of albums by James Brown, plus a version of La la Means I Love You by The UFOs which needs to be about three minutes longer than it is. This music is a bottomless pit: there's no chance of my collecting all the UK Motown albums, because I don't have that long left to live or the cash to fund such a lunatic pursuit; I long ago abandoned gathering all James Brown's works although I got some way into his US catalogue so maybe I ought to have carried on; I don't know that I'm actually collecting any soul artist at all, unless you count De La Soul. What I am doing, however, is buying what I like and enjoying it when I do. Which is really what record buying ought to be about – but frequently isn't.
By now you should be in possession of the new RC, details of which are below. We are grafting hard to create the next one, which features a big piece about debut albums; there's also an interview with Frankie Valli, that man who walked the thin line between R&B and pop with some aplomb; you'll also find a story about Chicago House rarities, and something about the Aphex Twin, which at least proves that we do notice that music didn't end in 1990. I interviewed Aphex many years ago, and he talked to me about making buzzing noises by touching audio cables and turning this into music. In that case my hi-fi is a musician, because it's buzzing. Anyone know how to stop a Garrard 4HF from rumbling?
Thank you for reading RC and this newsletter; it's much appreciated. Should you be voting in the Scottish election, I hope the outcome works for you when the dust settles.
Best wishes,
Ian McCann, Editor (25 per cent Scot; 100 per cent undecided)
Get your hands on one of these limited vinyls, in stock now. Listen to it but treasure it for future vinyl collectors.
VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
2014 UK limited edition 'Back To Black' series 8-track LP, pressed on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl and mastered from the original analogue recordings at Abbey Road studios, originally released in 1970; gatefold picture sleeve with download code and still sealed in the stickered shrink
Another very limited run on 180-gram vinyl, this makes for a future collectable piece of vinyl. Buy it now, listen to it and most of all treasure it for the future.
Faust - 2014 UK limited edition 'Back To Black' series 3-track LP pressed on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl and mastered from the original analogue recordings at Abbey Road studios, originally released in 1971; picture sleeve with download code and still sealed in the stickered shrink
IN STOCK TODAY.
Another very limited run on 180-gram vinyl, this makes for a future collectable piece of vinyl. Buy it now, listen to it and most of all treasure it for the future.
** 2014 UK limited edition 'Back To Black' series 10-track LP pressed on 180 gram heavyweight vinyl mastered from the original analogue recordings at Abby Road studios, originally released in 1971; picture sleeve with dowload code and still sealed in the stickered shrink **
This year marked the return of one of the most iconic performers in pop history, the one and only Prince. Known for his flair for the dramatic, and consistently great musical output over the last 30 years, Prince has maintained a solid fanbase over the years. We recently picked up a great Prince collection, including some fantastic rarities that are only usually seen in less than desirable condition. Below are just a few of the highlights availible now.
Sexy Dancer - Rare original 1979 UK Warner label 2-track 12" vinyl single also including Bambi, housed in a die-cut WEA label sleeve. The vinyl has only a few light surface marks on side 2, otherwise a top copy of this Prince rarity.
Purple Rain - Rare 1984 Mexican 9-track limited edition PICTURE DISC vinyl LP album - unreleased on this format in the UK and was pressed only in Mexico and is very limited and thus extremely hard to find now days, this copy is still housed in the custom printed clear PVC sleeve with white overprinted Spanish text & tracklisting. The PVC sleeve has a deletion drill hole in the bottom left corner and the vinyl is in excellent condition, but finding this item any condition from South American countries is very hard, a must have item for any fan!
Purple Rain - Vintage, original 1984 UK Warner promotional cinema poster for Prince's first motion picture. This fine example measures 30" x 40", and despite some very minor creasing to the edge through storage, which would be invisible with professional archivalframing, this is a stunning item. How many of these survived from movie theaters is anyones guess, and this is a piece of Prince history not to be missed out on.
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Rare 1979 Dutch wide- centred injection moulded 7" vinyl single, also including Just As Long As We're Together, unique picture sleeve. The sleeve has some light ringwear and edgewear, but remains in excellent conditin; the vinyl is in near 'as new' condition. This is the first copy we have seen in over 20 years!
This is just some of the highlights from items in the collection, with plenty more in stock. To see what we have just head to 991.com.
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Spent the weekend creeping across the open fields of East Anglia searching for vinyl in the hedgerows and byways, and generally making a nuisance of myself. Even better, greatly enjoyed catching up with official Friend Of Record Collector, Ian Clark, Northern soul face (despite possessing southern physiognomy) and DJ extraordinaire. Mr Clark eats, breathes and, er, plays vinyl, and I availed myself of his considerable record-finding services with a copy of Lou Donaldson’s Say It Loud and several handsome soul albums (his website doesn’t tell you the half of it, but is still packed with gems). I already have Lou’s album on CD, but buying the full-sized item had such an effect on me that I had a dream about the soul sisters on the sleeve – just a friendly encounter, you understand, nothing untoward. (Sometimes I think I may be just a little too obsessed with records.) Anyway, Mr Clark informs me he is well into the second section of his Northern trilogy that began with his piece in RC 417. If it’s half as good as the first one, it’ll be well worth the wait. Speaking of matters northerly and soulful, I’ve just heard tell about a second copy of the Darrell Banks record (ta-dah!) that has so foxed us all. I’ve yet to see the visual evidence, but we’ll bring it to you should it surface. Those of you who have no idea what I’m droning on about (no change there, then) can consult page 10 of the current issue of RC and my slightly daft riposte on page 15, should you feel that way inclined.
Prompted by last week’s newsletter’s musings about the right tune at the right time sending me into a state of ecstasy, reader Gareth Kitching has kindly written to suggest that it’s not just complete pieces of music that can turn you into a ray of light, but simply guitar riffs. He offers these examples: Leviathan’s Flames from our own Unleashed album (sold out now, sorry), Magical Mist’s Time Out To Fly, and Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth, which I actually prefer in a different version with another hypnotic guitar riff and which has filled floors for me on occasion (presumably the record sold zilch in the UK because my copy is the same demo pressing). I think for me it’s not so much riffs but musical atmosphere or perhaps the entire package that might send me higher, baby. It can also be location; for example, country music, if you are in a tower block in London, might not do very much for you. But hear it while zipping along a back road in Texas and it makes sense. Maybe it’s the right tune at the right time and the right place that matters. I’d love to read your thoughts about what sends you floating away like a music-powered balloon, and why you think it happens.
So K8 Bsh has aksed fns to turn off their fones and tblets B cs she don wan em 2 txt during her gigs, innit. Will this prevent her shows appearing on YouTube, as distorted as Dali’s clock, seconds after they are finished? I doubt it. Maybe Kate should hold her next gigs on a jet, or at a surgery, both places where people tend to observe the (probably pointless) orders to switch ’em off. I’ve got some sympathy with her, however: I’m intending to sing along with every note of Them Heavy People at full blast ’cos I like a bit of reggae, and the last thing I want is someone spoiling my enjoyment with their lousy mobile phone beeping.
Better go: Pink Floyd, Brit mod-soul, female metal, punk and hip-hop collectables and Sunn O))) are calling me – in a metaphorical sense, not on my moby. I’d best get on with putting these stories on the pages for you… many thanks for reading this newsletter, and Record Collector magazine.
Have a great week,
Best wishes
Ian McCann,
Editor
The World Cup Final. Half time. The globe is gripped and so am I. But what notion is nibbling away in the basement of my brain? Maybe this is the time to log on to eBay; nobody can be looking at it, apart from non-Latino Americans; surely there will be bargains to be had. No wonder Alan Hansen has decided to retire; instead of paying attention to his analysis, and I genuinely do think he gets right down to the real nitty gritty, I was scrolling down a page of rubbish reggae records. I apologise, Mr Hansen. It’s not like I profited at all from this distraction. Most sellers are waaaay too wise to post listings that end in the middle of Argentina vs Germany. And there’s a seasonal lull: the sun’s out, folk are on holiday, they can’t be boddered wid da Bay. It shows how out of touch I am with the zeitgeist that I reckoned I could grab a gem at such a time. That’s no surprise, however: I thought Fifty Shades Of Grey was a non-fiction book about British teeth.
I did buy a few records last week; I like to play something new at the weekend. And every other day, come to that. None were found on eBay, but captured from friendly dealers, who are (mostly) men my neighbours hate. The neighbours don’t know how lucky they are that I choose to play Pere Ubu at work, or that the punk 45s are on the top shelf, which I have to get a ladder out to flick through properly. My punk listening is basically a case of arrested development; I got about as far as Eater and The Pop Group (not that they count as proper punk), but then my new wave hormones kicked out, probably because of a vitamin X deficiency, and I didn’t move much further on with it. But I saw them all: The Jam, The Damned, The Clash (kind of) anyone mentioned in Punky Reggae Party! It’s a reminder of a fantastic time when I could go out in my laddered stockings and bin bag and only get beaten up several times a night. At least, I remember being threatened by a muscular navvy in a pub toilet in Notting Hill, because I gawped at him. He had spiky hair and I was idly wondering, “Is that Gareth Sager?” Apparently it’s rude to stare at a man in a pub toilet; who knew? Unless it’s a different kind of pub, in which case, please do. Did Huge Grunt have that aggro in Notting Hill? I doubt it.
The punk spirit lives on, in that thousands of bands make DIY records and stick them online, and most of the world neither knows nor cares. But we do. About some of them, anyway. None of them can make a penny, poor souls. But they’ll be going some to match our evil chums at Fruits de Mer, who have kindly sent in a fabulous Astralasia album with such a fabulous silkscreened cover that they must be making a ludicrous loss on it. Either that or they have found a loophole in economics, in which case they ought to be running the country, not a rather natty psychedelique-nouveau record label.
New issue of RC is in the shops around about now. Ms Kate Bush on the cover. See below for details. Thank you for reading this newsletter, which has actual news in it (also below, don’t crick your neck), and for reading Record Collector. Have a great week.
Best wishes
Ian McCann
(Editor)
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SMASHING PUMPKINS Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Rare UK limited edition 30-track triple vinyl LP with picture labels, featuring Tonight, Tonight, Tales Of A Scorched Earth, 1979 and Infinite Sadness. Housed in a numbered gatefold picture sleeve with fabulous artwork and complete with 12-page illustrated lyric booklet. This album is now incredibly hard to find in this format and captures the band in one of their best periods. The sleeve shows virtually no wear and the vinyl is immaculate HUTTLP30)
ROLLING STONES I-Con.tact (Deluxe limited edition UK Genesis Publications 208-page 18" x 12" spiral-bound hardback book, featuring the entire black & white photographic archive of celebrated Stones photographer Gered Mankowitz, taken between 1965 & 1968, reproduced as 12" x 16" contact sheets. This unique art volume is produced to the very highest standards, printed on 200gsm matt art paper with red acetate title page. This is one of 100 only editions [number 36], individually numbered, signed & bound with full leather boards and an exclusive signed/mounted print of Brian Jones, housed in a solander box with magnifying glass)
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CANNONBALL ADDERLEY Somethin' Else (Very rare circa 1959 issue of the 1958 US 5-track deep groove mono LP on the 'West 63rd - NYC' address label, with 'INC' & 'R' lettering, raised edge, 'RVG' stampers & 'ear' markings in the run-outs,housed in a heavy duty pasted laminate sleeve with 'West 61st' address on rear. One of many Blue Note classics, this is a particular standout as it includes not only Cannonball's but some of Miles Davis' best work, who appears here along withHank Jones, Sam Jones & Art Blakey. Autumn Leaves & Love For Sale are among the most beautiful & contemporary renditions ever recorded! A simply must-own for the jazz fan, see 'more info' for further details... BLP1595)
DAVID BOWIE The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars (Rare 1972/73 Japanese 2nd issue 11-track vinyl LP including fold out Japanese/lyric insert, picture sleeve & complete with legendary red & white 'Glam Rock' obi-strip. This copy remains in beautiful near 'as new' MINT condition - a stunning copy!)
ROLLING STONES The Rolling Stones (Amazing 2014 'Edition 100' limited edition A0 841mm x 1189mm [33.1" by 46.8"] art print enlargement of a photograph of the band in rehearsal in Mexico City in 1995 by celebrated rock photographer Fernando Aceves. Printed onto 308gm fine art matt archival paper using archival ink, the white bordered image has the embossed Rock Archive logo and is individually hand titled & numbered just SEVEN out of one hundred in the bottom left & signed bythe photographer in the bottom right. This mint condition print has been stored flat and is available to you here at a saving of £900 on the current retail price!)
JOHN LENNON John Lennon 1940-80 (Rare 1981 set of Six BBC Transcription Service radio library vinyl LPs celebrating the life of John Lennon. The discs feature John and Yoko in the now legendary in-depth interview with Andy Peebles in New York in December 1980, just before his untimely death, in which John talks about his life and career, including a single sided LP of 'National Spot For The Gap' commercials. The interview is punctuated by many of his classic hits and the set comes complete with full cue sheets CN3756/S)
DEPECHE MODE Touring The Angel: Live In Milan (2006 UK 3-disc 2DVD/CD set comprising of live performance footage from their 'Playing The Angel' tour which was one of the most successful, highly grossing and critically acclaimed tours of 2005/06 and featuring hit single and definitive classics and a host ofBonus Extras including a documentary directed by Anton Corbijn who also created the 5 stage screens, 'Playing The Angel' EPK and more plus BONUS CDfeaturing 8 liverecordings!. Presented in fold-out digipak sleeve with picture slipcase DMDVD5)
QUENTIN TARANTINO Pulp Fiction Posters (This is a lot of three official movie posters from 1994, depicting John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis as their cast characters: The Hitman, The Wolf & The Boxer respectively. If ever there was a modern cult film, this is it and these posters are the perfect depiction of a movie that received worldwide critique and acclaim. Each measures 24" x 34" in size and is in nearly new condition with no sellotape, pinholes, glue or tears)
REM Single Action Green (Rare 1989 US limited edition box set comtaining the singles for Orange Crush, Pop Song 89, Get Up and Stand, each in their own picture sleeve & a huge fold out colour poster, all housed in a 7" picture box)
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